^^^ That must be a Alaskan squirrel ! ^^^
^^^ That must be a Alaskan squirrel ! ^^^
Although I should be focused in the blue prints, specs, and scope of work.....Har, har har.![]()
Looks delicious Ed.Har, har har.![]()
Looks really good Ed! Enjoy!Har, har har.![]()
Dang you old pirate. The galley looks productive...Har, har har.![]()
Salt em and save for a rainy brother...I’m still eating on those smoked squirrels. Lordy, I’m about to founder on them. Still a lot left. I reckon I could freeze some to take with me on hunts when squirrel season opens soon.
....They were out on the tips of limbs, eating something. It didn't look like they were getting the nuts. I walked over and looked, it was buds. It's the only tree I found that is budding.
I'm getting squirrel raiders at night coming in from my neighbors property, gnawing the ends off of limbs of one particular sugar maple tree. Oddest thing I've ever seen. It's causing major damage. I mean, the yard is littered with these limb tips. Why this tree? There are other maples in the yard.
Y'all ever see this before?:
Maybe they drop them then gather them to build their dreys?
Stan, the only two reasons where I could see why squirrels would chew off small branches like that are:I'm getting squirrel raiders at night coming in from my neighbors property, gnawing the ends off of limbs of one particular sugar maple tree. Oddest thing I've ever seen. It's causing major damage. I mean, the yard is littered with these limb tips. Why this tree? There are other maples in the yard.
Y'all ever see this before?:
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So check this out. About 20-30 minutes after I posted above, I had to take the dog out to go potty. It was right at 0500 and darker than a room full of black cats. With flashlight in hand I walked the dog around a little bit. We stopped near one of the two tall burr oaks in my front yard.
Then I heard the distant sound of something cutting on something up in one of those trees. Shined the bright light up in the trees and could see nothing but the cutting continued. Shut the light off and stood there for a few minutes and listened. Eased over under where I thought the sound was coming from. Turned the light back on to search some more but it’s thick up there. About that time…..boink, I got hit in the head with a couple of chunks of acorns. I saw where one chunk landed so I picked it up.
The only thing I can think of is maybe a squirrel, but I don’t see how it would stick around knowing I was there. So, perhaps a flying squirrel????
I’m guessing it may have been a coon because I have seen them up in oaks eating acorns. Whatever it was, it wasn’t moving leaves around much. It was, for the most part, fairly stationary.
I actually had to take the trash down to the highway before the trash truck came by. So I drove my truck right under that oak at the edge of the driveway and whatever it was up there stayed. I would have thought for sure that would have scared it away.
Went back out there a couple of minutes ago and it’s still up there eating acorns.
Now to complicate this a little more, two days ago I repaired my squirrel feeder, moved it from the back yard and installed it on that tree. There’s corn in that feeder right now.
It’s a new moon at this time so it appears that it’s less likely to be a squirrel.
So yeah, another mystery.
Can you see any buds on undisturbed, attach limbs still on the tree?
Stan, If it were me, I’d put up a trail cam.Ed,
No buds on it at all that I can see. As you can see, they are defoliating it:
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The yard looked terrible, so I mowed and pulverized up all their limbs on the ground and got ready for a night mission.
It was a dark crescent moon night (LOL out-of-season night squirrel hunting with my Gamo underlever; the game warden would not approve). Nada; nothing. No squirrels and no limbs this morning. Odd.
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